Barbed fence-wire



T. H. DODGE.

BARBED FENCE WIRE.

No. 250,899. Patented 1190. 13,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS H. DODGE, OF WVOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VVASHBURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE, AND ISAAC L. ELLWOOD, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,899, dated December 13, 1881.

Application filed March 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, THOMAS H. DODGE, of

the city and county of Worcester, and Oommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Im provementsin Barbed Fenceire or Fencing; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming to a part of this specification, and in which- Figurelrepresentsatop or plan view of asec tion of my improved barbed fence-wire or fen 0- ing, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 2 represents a vertical central section on line A B, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a top or plan view of a section of myimproved barbed fence-wire or fencing. Fig. 4 represents a section on line C D, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a cross-section on line M N, Fig. 3; and Figs. 6, 7, and 8 represent sections on lines G, H, I, J, and K L, Fig. 1; and Fig. 9 represents a section on line E F, Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, the part marked A represents the main wire, which is to be run from post to post in the usual manner. In applying the barbs B to the wire A, the latter-is bent to form loops 0, over which is forced or placed a barbed ring or link-piece, a, after which the barb part B is passed under the loop O and above the link or ring-piece a, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2,3, 4, and 5, when, by a slight blow or pressure applied to the part b of the loop 0, the parts will be locked securely in position, and any strain thereafter upon the main wire A will only tend to cause the parts to hug each other more closely.

The barbs are made or out from sheet metal, illustrations of which are shown in Figs. 1 to 9, inclusive, and which figures represent different forms or shapes of barbs. It will be noticed that in these forms the ring a is formed with projectingbarbs,consequently four barbed ends are produced.

By constructing the barbed fence-wire or fencing with the barbed part made from sheet metal the barbed part may be made wider than the loop 0, so that when the latter is drawn or forced down it will crimp or compress the former where it passes through the loop. The same result could be produced by having the barbed partcurved sothatitwould pass through the loop O readily, after which its ends could be pressed' out fiat, thereby forming shoulders on each side of the loopU; or the loops 0 may be formed so as to project through the ring at a greater distance than is required to hold the barbed part, in which case the latter could be made wider than the loop and inserted in a diagonal position. so that when the loop and barbed part were forced down in their proper relative positions, as respects the barbed locking-ring a, the sides of the loop would compress and crimp in the edges of the barbed part, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 4.

By my invention barbed fence-wireor fencing can be made wi th comparativelyvery small wire, and yet have the barbs locked and secured firmly thereon, which cannot well be done so effectually by the old modes in use prior to my said invention. By my invention, if a barb happens to get broken or displaced, the fence can be repaired very conveniently and quickly, and that, too, without detaching the main wire from the fence-posts. The barbs, too, may be cut from waste pieces of sheet m etal, thereby econo- 8o mizing in the first cost of the construction of the fence, as well as in the subsequent repair thereof.

Having described my improvements in barbed fence-wire or fencing, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The barbed ring or link a, stamped or cut from sheet metal, in combination with the locking-barb B and a fence-wire, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, barbed fence-wire in which a series of barbed links or rings, stamped or out from sheet metal, and having holes in the center thereof, are se- 5 cured at intervals to the main wire by barbed looking or fastening devices which hold the barbed rings flatwise against the fence-wire.

THOS. H. DODGE.

Witnesses:

EDWIN E. MOORE, FRED L. GOULDING. 

